Smile! Darn Ya, Smile!

[Le Libérer]

While you view this image, click the link and listen to the song while you view it so you can get the full effect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlYEDBcDOAA

http://i648.photobucket.com/albums/uu210/lovebadgirl/P3185327.jpg

[Dimentio]

I don't know what it is... but it looks creepy...

[Il Medico]

....What?.....

[Le Libérer]

It is creepy. Its done by an artist I know, who is painting a series that de-objectifies 9-11. There were so many images of fear that was used from 9-11 to scared and mold Americans into becoming more docile.

I see it as the false security one has living in the richest, most powerful state in the world, and how quickly that false hope can be wiped away.

I think its brilliant, actually.

To quote the artist:


We have been subjected to the imagery of the planes crashing into the twin towers for a little over six years now. To worsen the tragedy, the american government has objectified and used this catastrophe and death as a tool. For political control and for war and to obfuscate the american people. Because the images have been aired repeatedly and made as a center piece for military occupation in other parts of the world, it has been hammered into the american psyche. It's getting easier and easier to conveniently forget that when those planes hit the skyscrapers it was like busting open a can of baked beans.
And what about the innocents and loss of life?
These people and this event have been objectified for many things, for war, for money and consumption, greed and war,.....but not for art. Until now.

[Vendetta]

Hollywood beat you to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPCYgPk87KM

Skip to about 2:40 ;)

[Le Libérer]

Hollywood beat you to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPCYgPk87KM

Skip to about 2:40 ;)
Excellent!! You must really like that movie to remember that.

[Fknugly]

Hollywood beat you to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPCYgPk87KM

Skip to about 2:40 ;)

Hollywood didn't beat me to anything. The scene in Roger Rabbit where Eddie Valiant enters Toontown and sees the sun, trees, birds etc. smiling and dancing to Billy Cotton's 1931 hit, "Smile Darn ya Smile" being sung was my motivation for the painting and that's exactly why i linked the song FROM that movie to my painting. Did you not notice that the songs were one and the same? You can ONLY get that version from the movie.
Nothing gets by you does it?
Now if "who framed Roger Rabbit" had included two towers with one smoking while the other one sang in that scene then yes, they would have beaten me to it but thus far, I'm the first.
My painting illustrates the perseverance it takes to overcome American propaganda and fear mongering exhibited by all our national medias and at the same time exposes the sick and twisted American ignorance and zeitgeist that has propagated our world into darkness as a result of it. I congratulate you though on making the connection.

[Vendetta]

Excellent!! You must really like that movie to remember that.

I thought it was an awesome fucking movie.

But that's probably because I only ever watch it stoned as hell.

[AK]

I thought it was an awesome fucking movie.

But that's probably because I only ever watch it stoned as hell.
Thanks to this post I've just had a brainwave.
The reason the left is doing so shitty atm is because the entire left is too busy getting stoned and/or drunk to lead a revolution.

[Ele'ill]

Actually nevermind the youtube version of what I posted isn't the same as the original